The end of 30 years of horror: 'Atizapan monster' breathed his last in prison

Andrés Mendoza, one of the serial killers who shook the world and the perpetrator of 19 women, was found dead in prison. The 77-year-old killer known as the "Beast of Atizapan" was found dead in his cell on Thursday from complications of pneumonia, only five years into his aggravated life sentence.

Terrible Archive Found in His House: 4,300 Bone Pieces

Mendoza's chain of killers began to unravel in May 2021 with the disappearance of 34-year-old Reyna González. The police, who tracked down the young woman, were shocked by what they encountered when they raided the house in Atizapán, near Mexico City.

During the searches carried out in the house of Mendoza, a former butcher, identities, clothes and jewelry belonging to missing women, a secret notebook in which women's names were written, video tapes of moments of brutality and 4300 bone fragments were seized.

'ALL I WANT TO TELL THE TRUTH'

Mendoza, who confessed to the murders in cold blood shortly after being taken into custody, stated that his passion for bloodshed began in 1991. The murderer, who claimed to have killed more than 30 women in his first interrogation, attracted attention with his bold attitude in court and said to the judge, "All I want is to tell the truth. I told you, what more can I do?" he called out with his words. Prosecutors were able to officially link him to 19 murders, based on the evidence they had.

SHOULDING METHOD: THEY TOOK THE BODIES AND EAT THEM

In his statement to the police, Mendoza also described his tactic of deceiving his victims. The murderer, who usually invited women he met and befriended on the streets to his home, admitted that he murdered them by stabbing them in the heart, then cut their bodies into pieces and hid them in different parts of the house. One of the most horrifying details of the investigation was that Mendoza admitted to eating some of the flesh of his victims.

The "Atizapan Monster", who was sentenced to 92 years of additional imprisonment in addition to life imprisonment in the cases he was tried, said goodbye to Tenango del Valle Prison, where elderly and vulnerable prisoners were kept, after completing a very small part of his sentence, leaving behind many question marks waiting to be clarified.